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This is a digitised version of an article from The Cayman Compass's print archive. Occasionally, the digitisation process introduces transcription errors, or other problems.
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The Rainbow Warrior has been in Cayman twice, with the last visit being in 1984. Greenpeace Chairman Bryn Jones told a news conference in London that the two explosions occurred as the Rainbow Warrior prepared to campaign against French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. The Portuguese man, killed in the second explosion, was Fernando Pereira, believed to be 33, the ship's photographer, said Greenpeace spokesman George Pritchard.
Jones told a British Broadcasting Corp. television interviewer: "there must be a very strong presumption of sabotage," because there was nothing on board to cause two such explosions by accident.
Pritchard told the Associated Press that after the first explosion, Pereira and another crewman went aboard to investigate.
